Mindy Weisberger is a science journalist and author of the book "Rise of the Zombie Bugs: The Surprising Science of Parasitic Mind-Control," published by Hopkins Press. She formerly edited for Scholastic and reported for Live Science as a channel editor and senior writer. She has reported on general science, covering climate change, paleontology, biology and space. Mindy studied film at Columbia University; prior to Live Science she produced, wrote and directed media for the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. Her videos about dinosaurs, astrophysics, biodiversity and evolution appear in museums and science centers worldwide, earning awards such as the CINE Golden Eagle and the Communicator Award of Excellence. Her writing has also appeared in Scientific American, The Washington Post, How It Works Magazine and CNN.
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Do animals have friends?Friendship is a key component of human social relationships. Is this also true for animals?
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How to make a solar eclipse viewer to safely watch the total solar eclipse on April 8Don't have a pair of eclipse glasses to view the April 8 total solar eclipse? No sweat; you can make a safe and simple DIY eclipse viewer with a box, some tinfoil, and a few household craft supplies.
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What's the difference between deductive reasoning and inductive reasoning?Deductive reasoning and inductive reasoning are easy to mix up. Learn what the difference is and see examples of each type of scientific reasoning.
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Why don't people have tails?Scientists recently found that a so-called jumping gene may have jumped ship millions of years ago, and taken our tails with it.
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James Webb Space Telescope: Origins, design and mission objectivesReference NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has launched and it's the most powerful in history, giving us the deepest ever view into our universe.
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What is Juneteenth?Juneteenth is a federally-recognized American holiday observed on June 19. It is also known as Emancipation Day and Black Independence Day. In 2023, it falls on a Monday.
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Manhattanhenge: What makes New York City's iconic sunset so special?Manhattanhenge, a phenomenon when the setting sun is perfectly aligned with Manhattan's grid-patterned streets, occurs twice a year with a full sunset, and twice a year with a half sunset.
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Epic 11-foot-tall sea level rise drove Vikings out of GreenlandClimate change that led to sea level rise and severe coastal flooding could explain why the Vikings abandoned their Greenland settlements.
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Strange love: 13 animals with truly weird courtship ritualsFor Valentine's Day, Live Science gathers together some of the more extravagant and outlandish courtship rituals in the animal kingdom.
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Noodle-necked swimming dinosaur may have been a diving predator like a penguinScientists recently discovered the first non-avian theropod dinosaur with a streamlined body similar to that of penguins, auks and other modern diving birds.
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Tiny 'bramble snout' fossils found near Wales were 'weird wonders' that predated the dinosaursScientists recently unearthed fossils of strange ocean creatures that lived about 460 million years ago and were unlike any animal alive today.
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Octopuses fling shells and sand at each other, and scientists caught their battles on videoWatch debris from the sea bottom fly, as octopuses hurl sand and other projectiles at their neighbors in an Australian bay.
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19th-century whaling shipwreck identified in the Gulf of MexicoScientists have discovered the long-lost shipwreck of a whaling vessel that sank during a storm in 1836.
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Nazi bombs destroyed a priceless 'sea monster' fossil. Scientists just found its long-lost plaster copies.More than 70 years ago, during a WWII air raid in the U.K., German bombs destroyed a rare fossil of an ichthyosaur. Scientists just found long-lost plaster casts of the priceless skeleton.
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Spy Satellite Images Uncover Staggering Mount Everest Ice LossDeclassified spy-satellite photos show that the glaciers near Mount Everest are shrinking more than expected.
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Bizarre aye-ayes use spooky, bony finger for nose pickingA new study in aye-ayes is the first to review nose picking in primates and reports the first evidence of the habit in lemurs.
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King Tut's father revealed in stunning facial reconstructionAn astonishingly lifelike facial reconstruction reveals the face of an enigmatic mummy who may have been the biological father of the renowned pharaoh Tutankhamen.
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Mosquito larvae launch their heads like tiny harpoons to nab prey, video revealsResearchers have captured the first-ever footage of mosquito larvae flinging their heads at prey in deadly hunting strikes.
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8 Reasons Why We Love TardigradesWhether you know them as water bears or moss piglets, tardigrades are microscopic bundles of awesomeness.
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30-Year Deep Freeze Just Puts Tardigrade in the MoodTwo tardigrades and one egg that spent the past three decades cooling their jets in a researchers' freezer were recently resuscitated.
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Key to Tardigrades' 'Superpowers' Identified in Their DNAA tardigrade's unique genetic makeup fuels the creature's remarkable resuscitation superpowers.
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If We Live in a Multiverse, Where Are These Worlds Hiding?What is the scientific basis for the popular science-fiction convention of multiple universes?
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Everybody Freeze! The Science of the Polar Bear ClubOn New Year's Day on Brooklyn, New York's Coney Island beach, the sound of chattering teeth will fill the air, as thousands of people gather for a ceremonial wintry dip in the Atlantic Ocean.
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Ancient and bizarre 'innovation crab' from China had eyes on stalks, spike-studded arms and a tail full of 'blades'A bizarre fossil from China's Chengjiang Lagerstätte site hints at early diversity in a group of Cambrian marine arthropods called radiodonts.
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